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This research proposes an analysis of the presence of Pierre Bourdieu in the field of Information Science by a survey based on the Web of Science, which indicates aspects and issues set out by the metric analysis of the material used for analysis in this research expressed in the scientific production of this area.
In order to conduct this study we propose a research of the qualitative characteristics, concerning the approach of the problem, and the quantitative characteristics from the point of view of its objectives. The data were collected by means of a bibliographical survey of the indexed documents in the field of Information Science, which were made available based on the Web of Science without chronological, idiomatic or geographical cutouts. The sear
ch returned material which was analyzed in different ways in pursuit of a mapping of the work’s use and the author’s ideas. The material adopted in this research comprised 57 documents published within the period between 1995 and 2014, with emphasis being placed on the year of 2012. The research presents a network of coauthors composed of 69 authors. Among the cited references the documents amount to a total of 2,070 which were produced by 1,413 cited authors. Most of the material used in this research was
composed of articles being written in English. All selected documents were also analyzed by the frequency of the descriptors, by origin and by year of publication providing quantitative data to the study. With the adopted methodological options it was possible to learn which subject categories use Bourdieu most recurrently, as well as which references are used by the mapped area.